That's all well and good, but why is it grounds for getting banned? If MS holds a ban against any mention of your sexual orientation, gay or otherwise, that's fine. But does anyone know if they do ban people who advertise their heterosexuality? I'm actually curious to know.
Here's a novel idea. How about the Writer's Guild actually add value to the TTS that they want royalties for. develop TTS technology with invisible tonal inflection tags and phonetic language. It would take a publisher some manual effort to set up and significantly improve the TTS output. Huh, you mean you can actually make money embracing technology?
When TTS is capable of replacing a human voice, no licensing scheme is going to help you. You will find yourself in the same position as the RIAA/MPAA where no one respects your copyright anymore because you are doing everything in your power to stop them from doing something that's just so easy.
Instead, how about winning for a change and embrace the technology. Create a standardized scripting and phonetic language for TTS that allows a computer to understand what tone of voice or inflection to use while guaranteeing proper pronunciation. Then sell electronic books with this scripting on some invisible layer for use in TTS systems. If you don't embrace the technology, you will lose.
I know I'm in the minority here, but I enjoy Firefox enough that I would pay for it if the price was right. Something like $50-$75 for four licenses would be doable in my opinion.
A more realistic solution would be to allow people to permanently uninstall Internet Explorer. This really is my biggest gripe. There is no choice because even if you choose another browser, you can't choose to not have Internet Explorer at the same time.
And this exactly illustrates why I never owned more than 3 NES games ever. This is a matter of supply/demand curves, not comparative cost. If halving the retail price raises sales by 3000%, if the increased sales more than make up for the lost profit per unit, then games are indeed over-priced in a bad way for the game companies. Keep in mind, increased sales mean higher volume and thus less cost per unit to produce the physical media.
For example, hairbrushes can be shipped across State lines; so, regardless of whether they are shipped across State lines or not, Congress can give themselves authority for anything relating to hairbrushes, possibly including how they get used.
Not quite. I only know from personal example. When the FDA does site audits, one of the first things they will ask for are bills of ladening for outgoing product, because this proves their authority over the company by showing that they engage in interstate commerce. So determining that actual interstate commerce is occurring is still important.
Conventions are scary things these days if they are composed of elected representatives rather than State appointees. Do you believe that the representatives running in your area really understand the problem and really have your best interests in mind. The larger this nation gets, the larger the sphere of power afforded to every representative gets. It's not like in the early days where a Convention was composed of representatives from 13 fairly small states with moderate populations. Today a convention would look more like the House of Representatives, and would likely be nothing more than an analog of it.
In a few ways I don't think that's so bad, so long as they are encouraging it as a way to keep employees within the company. It promotes diverse understanding of each department's roles and their difficulties, while encouraging employees to stay within the company even if they are bored with their current position. Cure the boredom and desire to advance by shifting to a different department.
Agreed. Sure Google is dominating the online advertising market, but maybe it's largely because their ads are not overtly obtrusive and are often relevant. I consciously refuse to click on ads I find annoying, but I've actually used Google ads to find obscure products that I am looking to buy.
"Should". Who says? You? So what you're saying is, staying in tech is worthless?
Staying in tech is not at all worthless. Staying in a dead-end job is worthless. I've jumped ship on two jobs when I ended up at a dead-end and management was unable to help me move laterally to a non-dead-end position. Watch out for that dead-end.
This is why you should always have your eye on a higher position and be formulating a plan to get there. This partially resolves several problems.
1. Your company is less likely to send managerial positions over seas.
2. At age 40, you should have aquired experience that makes your time more valuable than gold.
3. If you're in a managerial position, being fully trained on new technology is not necessary. You only need to know enough to properly manage your associates.
4. New college graduates do not have the experience needed to effectively and efficiently manage.
5. Ok, so you can't do too much about absurd deadline demands. This is not unique to IT by any means. But with higher levels of experience comes more bargaining power.
Despite the royal pain in the ass replacing that hard drive was, I must admit, it lasted 3 years of constant abuse before I had to replace it. In all reality, I don't think going through that much hassle for a once in the product's life event is that big of a deal.
Of course emotions are irrational. That does not mean that you have to forget rationality when you feel them. Considering that we feel emotions all the time, if our ability to reason was over-ridden by our emotions, we would all be emotional basket cases all the time.
I understand that sometimes emotions can get the best of us, especially with depression, but I don't have much sympathy for people who refuse to do what they need to do to get in control of themselves.
TFA also points out that caller ID blocking has never been a secure system. It has always been possible to reroute calls to an 800 number where caller ID blocking is useless.
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That's all well and good, but why is it grounds for getting banned? If MS holds a ban against any mention of your sexual orientation, gay or otherwise, that's fine. But does anyone know if they do ban people who advertise their heterosexuality? I'm actually curious to know.
Here's a novel idea. How about the Writer's Guild actually add value to the TTS that they want royalties for. develop TTS technology with invisible tonal inflection tags and phonetic language. It would take a publisher some manual effort to set up and significantly improve the TTS output. Huh, you mean you can actually make money embracing technology?
How do I acquire such a free audio copy? Do they demand medical proof of blindness?
When TTS is capable of replacing a human voice, no licensing scheme is going to help you. You will find yourself in the same position as the RIAA/MPAA where no one respects your copyright anymore because you are doing everything in your power to stop them from doing something that's just so easy.
Instead, how about winning for a change and embrace the technology. Create a standardized scripting and phonetic language for TTS that allows a computer to understand what tone of voice or inflection to use while guaranteeing proper pronunciation. Then sell electronic books with this scripting on some invisible layer for use in TTS systems. If you don't embrace the technology, you will lose.
Remember !!!!!!~1.jpg? Good times.
Strange. It clearly reads Wall-Mart. The previous headline on the other hand reads "Supreme Court of India Comes Down On fnordBloggersfnord"
I know I'm in the minority here, but I enjoy Firefox enough that I would pay for it if the price was right. Something like $50-$75 for four licenses would be doable in my opinion.
A more realistic solution would be to allow people to permanently uninstall Internet Explorer. This really is my biggest gripe. There is no choice because even if you choose another browser, you can't choose to not have Internet Explorer at the same time.
They are presenting papers about what their research goals are. They haven't actually done it yet.
Welcome to academia. Have a nice stay.
Maybe if you had read TFA... oh wait... my bad.
I quite enjoy the brown color scheme. It looks clean and professional while being easy on the eyes.
And this exactly illustrates why I never owned more than 3 NES games ever. This is a matter of supply/demand curves, not comparative cost. If halving the retail price raises sales by 3000%, if the increased sales more than make up for the lost profit per unit, then games are indeed over-priced in a bad way for the game companies. Keep in mind, increased sales mean higher volume and thus less cost per unit to produce the physical media.
For example, hairbrushes can be shipped across State lines; so, regardless of whether they are shipped across State lines or not, Congress can give themselves authority for anything relating to hairbrushes, possibly including how they get used.
Not quite. I only know from personal example. When the FDA does site audits, one of the first things they will ask for are bills of ladening for outgoing product, because this proves their authority over the company by showing that they engage in interstate commerce. So determining that actual interstate commerce is occurring is still important.
Conventions are scary things these days if they are composed of elected representatives rather than State appointees. Do you believe that the representatives running in your area really understand the problem and really have your best interests in mind. The larger this nation gets, the larger the sphere of power afforded to every representative gets. It's not like in the early days where a Convention was composed of representatives from 13 fairly small states with moderate populations. Today a convention would look more like the House of Representatives, and would likely be nothing more than an analog of it.
In a few ways I don't think that's so bad, so long as they are encouraging it as a way to keep employees within the company. It promotes diverse understanding of each department's roles and their difficulties, while encouraging employees to stay within the company even if they are bored with their current position. Cure the boredom and desire to advance by shifting to a different department.
Agreed. Sure Google is dominating the online advertising market, but maybe it's largely because their ads are not overtly obtrusive and are often relevant. I consciously refuse to click on ads I find annoying, but I've actually used Google ads to find obscure products that I am looking to buy.
Immanuel Kant said it best, "If a site is hacked and no one visits the defaced page, can it be truly considered a hack?"
He truly was a man ahead of his time!
"Should". Who says? You? So what you're saying is, staying in tech is worthless?
Staying in tech is not at all worthless. Staying in a dead-end job is worthless. I've jumped ship on two jobs when I ended up at a dead-end and management was unable to help me move laterally to a non-dead-end position. Watch out for that dead-end.
This is why you should always have your eye on a higher position and be formulating a plan to get there. This partially resolves several problems.
1. Your company is less likely to send managerial positions over seas.
2. At age 40, you should have aquired experience that makes your time more valuable than gold.
3. If you're in a managerial position, being fully trained on new technology is not necessary. You only need to know enough to properly manage your associates.
4. New college graduates do not have the experience needed to effectively and efficiently manage.
5. Ok, so you can't do too much about absurd deadline demands. This is not unique to IT by any means. But with higher levels of experience comes more bargaining power.
I used to work at a company where this was a standard career advancement strategy.
Despite the royal pain in the ass replacing that hard drive was, I must admit, it lasted 3 years of constant abuse before I had to replace it. In all reality, I don't think going through that much hassle for a once in the product's life event is that big of a deal.
Of course emotions are irrational. That does not mean that you have to forget rationality when you feel them. Considering that we feel emotions all the time, if our ability to reason was over-ridden by our emotions, we would all be emotional basket cases all the time.
I understand that sometimes emotions can get the best of us, especially with depression, but I don't have much sympathy for people who refuse to do what they need to do to get in control of themselves.
16 screws is a hell of a lot easier than it was for me to replace my old iBook hard drive! 54 screws! I only had one left over when I was done.
Does this mean that the Yahoo mail EULA does not apply to me since I opened that account back when I was a minor? Interesting.
TFA also points out that caller ID blocking has never been a secure system. It has always been possible to reroute calls to an 800 number where caller ID blocking is useless.